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The way we speak about other animals is
inseparable from the way we
treat them. Although nonhuman people don’t perceive the disparagement
and threat in speciesist words, those words legitimize abuse. By
discounting nonhuman sentience, individuality, and worth, speciesist
language sanctions cruelty and murder. (9)
Thus, we can understand the defamiliarization of speciesism as a challenge to
established, anthropocentric perceptions of animals. These perceptions control
the labels that we unthinkingly apply to the nonhumans who surround us (food,
cute, tool, dangerous, companion, delicious, pest, exotic, decoration, ugly,
companion and so on) and that govern our behaviour towards them. The wild
animal story characteristics discussed in this section all utilize defamiliarization
to challenge anthropocentric and speciesist thinking.
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